Dallas Paleontological Society

On April 13, Yuri Kimura was invited to the April meeting of Dallas Paleontological Society and gave a talk about her Master's thesis.

"The
speaker for April's meeting will be Yuri Kimura from SMU, who received a DPS
scholarship in 2009. Her research, under the direction of Dr. Louis
Jacobs, is on the evolution of fossil rodents and their dispersal from
Asia. Her talk will be titled "Jumping Mice, not
discovered by Roy Chapman Andrews". Andrews was the famous
paleontologist and adventurer who explored China and Mongolia in the 1910s and
20s, looking for fossils of early man for the American Museum of Natural
Science. He instead found many dinosaur fossils including the first
dinosaur eggs, but apparently missing the tiny rodent teeth!

Yuri
has also been active in a group of students that are raising funds for relief
from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. She will bring some specially-designed
t-shirts, which include a replica of the iconic early
Japanese drawing of a tsunami, to sell at the DPS meeting for this
cause."